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This article/story is based on the interviews of 3 New Zealand people who are involved in the design phase of the international SKA Telescope project. This SKA project is the biggest science project in the world in the first half of the 21st century, and New Zealand is a major design team for the Central Signal Processor among other work packages. Jonathan Kings is a New Zealand diplomat and the deputy chair of the international SKA project board. Andrew Ensor is a senior research lecturer of AUT and the director of the New Zealand design team. TN Chan is the system architect of Compucon and a member of the SKA design team focusing on high performance parallel computing. A key message is that New Zealand has the potential of spinning some design insights of this science project to the local computing industry.
Acknowledgement: This article/story was first published in print in Engineering Insight in May/June 2014 Volume 15/3. Engineering Insight is the official magazine of IPENZ (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand). Engineering Insight has given permission to Compucon to reproduce this article for a wider circulation on this website.
2014-05 IPENZ ExploringSpace PDF
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This article/story is based on the interviews of 3 New Zealand people who are involved in the design phase of the international SKA Telescope project. This SKA project is the biggest science project in the world in the first half of the 21st century, and New Zealand is a major design team for the Central Signal Processor among other work packages. Jonathan Kings is a New Zealand diplomat and the deputy chair of the international SKA project board. Andrew Ensor is a senior research lecturer of AUT and the director of the New Zealand design team. TN Chan is the system architect of Compucon and a member of the SKA design team focusing on high performance parallel computing. A key message is that New Zealand has the potential of spinning some design insights of this science project to the local computing industry.
Acknowledgement: This article/story was first published in print in Engineering Insight in May/June 2014 Volume 15/3. Engineering Insight is the official magazine of IPENZ (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand). Engineering Insight has given permission to Compucon to reproduce this article for a wider circulation on this website.
2014-05 IPENZ ExploringSpace PDF
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May 2014 |
Compucon CPD Seminar
11 June 2014 Wed
Compucon House Albany
4.00 Outside the Square (Black Hole in our Backyard)
4:20 Computing Technology Industry Landscape
5:00 Parallel Computing & Non-Wintel Exploration Report (TN/Dave Fielder)
5:30 Data Modelling & Verification (AUT Masters of Engineering Stefan Wong)
6:00 Wine and Cheese
This Outside-the-Square session is not intended to amuse or amaze only, but is an essential step to give our peers some lateral views for growing our business. An astronomy professor in USA has acquired strong evidence that a massive black hole exists in our galaxy close to us in astronomy distance. A black hole sucks all things close to it and yet it is invisible. Will it suck Earth into it at some stage? This session provides some spectacular snapshots of the invisible. You are assured that the preparation of this session is a challenge.
Our May seminar introduced the tip-of-iceberg computing metaphor for us to understand what cloud computing really is about. This session will explore the opportunities available to New Zealand as a country and to our peer group and channel members including end users specifically. We will scour the landscape for what are coming onto us in a few years. We look at computing technology advancements being made across the world for high performance and parallel computing. It opens us up to a world hidden from us otherwise. Industry players discussed in this session include a name mistaken for gaming and several hidden big names. We will take a high level view with some technical data for illustrations. The concept will be easy for all to grasp although a computing technology background will help.
There are 4 major parallel computing standards including one that is proprietary in the world. When an application program calls on one of these standards, the application program will be able to execute in parallel in hardware. This session will explain the standards that will dominate the world. We will also talk about two deep sea efforts being carried out by Microsoft Research. They are ground and eye opening, and indicate the future trends of parallel computing. Our work is being backed up with hands-on experiments.
The last session is outside the square of what Compucon did but within the square of what Compucon will do. Stefan has just completed his Masters of Engineering thesis, and will give us an overview of what problems he attempted to solve and how he solved the problems in his research. Modelling and Verification are two key words of his research that are highly relevant to Compucon II.
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Compucon Peers In Action
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